Weird Job

Scientists in Australia are studying bees to find ways to protect them from diseases that destroy bee populations. To do this they refrigerate the bees till they are sleepy and docile then they glue a microchip to each bee. Some of the younger bees are hairy enough that they must be shaved before attaching the 1/16 of an inch square chip. Bee shaver is just about the weirdest job I've ever heard of, to say nothing of the micro chip gluer on-ers.
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Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 01, 2014
Category: Insects and Spiders

Comments

You have done a lot of shaving back in your nursing days Patty and I'm not talking faces. 🐛

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 02/01/14 at 08:52 PM

Oh no! I ONLY shaved faces in the NURSING HOME, believe me!!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/01/14 at 08:54 PM

I've heard that one has to beeware of nursing home nurses!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/01/14 at 11:23 PM

I spent a summer in college gluing tags onto bees while working as a research assistant. All you need is steady hands and not freaking out about bees.

Posted by Dan P on 02/03/14 at 08:01 AM

Based on the upper facts, nursing in no doubt essential for health social care sector. We can say that it's quite a major part of providing health care facilities specially for elder people. Although nursing homes are improving them selves but we need to increase the ratio of the private facilities across all over the UK.

Posted by Alan smith on 03/17/14 at 06:28 AM

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